Juniper Networks today rounded out its Adaptive Threat Management security offerings, adding identity and application awareness into the mix to lock down the distributed enterprise.
The new functionality promises to deliver consistent application delivery and performance across the data center, campus, branch and remote locations to cut risks that threaten distributed companies while also reducing vulnerability windows from months to minutes or seconds.
Michael Rothschild, Juniper's senior manager of solutions marketing, said there are several new additions to Juniper's Adaptive Threat Management Solutions.
The pay-as-you-grow model now ties together a host of components including the new Juniper Networks WX Client for application acceleration; a new release of Juniper's network access control (NAC) solution, Unified Access Control (UAC) 3.1; new market-leading SA Series SSL VPN version 6.5 software with new standards-based interoperability functionality; new Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) technology; and new releases of Juniper Networks Security Threat Response Manager (STRM) 2009.1 and Network and Security Manager (NSM) 2009.1 for network-wide, centralized visibility and control.
"Security and application delivery needs to scale to where business is done," Rothschild said.
The additions to Juniper's adaptive threat management roster come as a recent Verizon data breach study illustrates the time it takes to thwart attacks. According to the study, an enterprise is vulnerable to an attack for 104 days before it is discovered and contained.
Rothschild said all of the new functionality will be available soon as software updates to existing appliances. For the channel, the updates better enable partners to guide customers with a security road map for upgrading as opposed to building out an all-new security infrastructure.
"This gives the channel the ability to go back to any customers they've sold security to," he said. "In this economy, who doesn't like the idea of augmenting instead of ripping and replacing?"
He added that it also helps VARs shift from being box pushers to trusted advisers while arming them with the solutions necessary to sell a security vision as opposed to just products, which also opens the door to cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.
"Nobody is going to sign a P.O. for Adaptive Threat Management in one shot," Rothschild said. "Partners are going to sell the vision."
Rich Campagna, Juniper's senior product line manager, said the first new component, the WX Client, which is integrated with Juniper's SA SSL VPN, adds identity awareness to WAN acceleration to ensure applications are delivered across the WAN securely and with minimal delay.
The new WX Client automatically downloads and launches when users start a Network Connect VPN session. Campagna said the client, which offers acceleration based on identity, can boost application performance up to nine times and file transfers up to 12 times.
Second, Juniper has updated its Adaptive Threat Management suite to offer dynamically provisioned antispyware and antimalware via Juniper's UAC 3.1 and SA SSL VPN version 6.5 software releases. Essentially, antispyware and antimalware are automatically pushed to end-point devices regardless of location over the LAN or WAN to ensure blocking, detecting and removal of threats while enforcing security policy based on role or application.
Last, Juniper has added identity-based and application-specific enforcement with visibility control by integrating IPS functionality into its UAC and SA SSL VPN to enable role-based application policy enforcement with "follow-me" user access policies and application usage. It lets companies use IPS at all locations to detect and stop application misuse and attacks before damage occurs.
Along with the additions to its Adaptive Threat Management lineup, Juniper said the new functionality is managed and controlled through its Security Threat Response Manager (STRM) and its Network S Manager (NSM). STRM offers threat detection with realtime event streaming while NSM lets users centrally manage device configuration and policy provisioning life cycles.
Rothschild said the new additions ensure that users, applications and traffic are secure while not slowing the network.
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